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I have spent most of the holidays out here avoiding the traffic and pitter
patter of drive by shooters in metro Atlanta. Waking up last Monday I was
looking forward to a hot shower and to get something's done around the house. I
turned on the water only get get an ice cold stream of the Tallapoosa River
flowing out the shower head. I thought it might be the pilot light of the water
heater gone out and called city hall. Ms. Polly promptly had a high up in public
works to check it out. We were greeted by 3 inches of water in the basement. The
water heater had finally gone south and I had to get a new one. I called Richard
Gentry who sent Ken Moses out to handle my situation before neighbors would
begin complaining about my unshoweredness. Moses parted the waters of the
basement and got me fixed up and I took a shower that lasted until sometime
Tuesday afternoon. I also was looking at my electric stove that I inherited when
I bought the house 3 years ago was old. I think Thomas Edison used to cook on
it. I went out to Crossroads Furniture and Jack Jackson sold me a smooth top
stove so I could heat up my Swanson's frozen dinners. I began to reflect on 2009
as perhaps one of the best years of my life. I remembered loosing some of my
most cherished friends in the past 12 months. I attended a couple of weddings
and saw happiness. I saw my children playing in the yard with the neighbor's
kids and hearing a lot of laughter. 2009 will be remembered as the year that we
saw how the Congress of the United States are a pretty benign lot. I still don't
understand the two thousand plus page bill on health care. We saw our state
legislature rocked by scandal last year. We saw that the top sports personality
in the world of golf had feet of clay. In 2009 we learned of H1 N1 and I got
that shot and the regular flu shot but still had a chest cold for the past two
weeks. I am looking forward to 2010 being a great year. You can look around and
see Tallapoosa growing. The new CVS Pharmacy will have more parking spots than
Arbor Place Mall. I like the fact that I can get a Big O burger next door at the
Burger Chick when I get my Zocor prescription refilled. I am hoping that all of
you will have a great year. I am now living for next Thursday and the BCS
National Championship game between Alabama and the University of Texas. Leon
Rutheford and his son Craig are headed to Pasadena for the game. They are going
by way of Las Vegas. Oddsmakers out there say that Leon will have to walk back
to Tallapoosa. Leon has never accepted the fact that Coach Bryant has been gone
for almost 27 years. Leon tried to tell me that he saw the Bear walk across
Logan Martin Lake in Pell City one time.
Alabama Crimson Tide fans are a passionate lot. Roll Tide!
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